Dak Prescott ranked higher than Tony Romo ever was in top 100

Tony Romo’s supporters have even more ammunition in arguing the former Cowboys quarterback was underrated and underappreciated during his 14-year career.

It took Dak Prescott exactly one season to rate higher in NFL Network’s top 100 than Romo ever did. The poll of 902 NFL players ranked Prescott 14th. Among quarterbacks, only Derek Carr, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and Matt Ryan ranked higher.

Romo, according to Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News, never ranked among even the top-20 players. Romo’s highest finish ever was 34th after the 2014 season when he led the league with a 69.9 completion percentage and 113.2 passer rating in going 12-3 with 3,705 passing yards, 34 touchdowns and nine interceptions. NFL Network has conducted the poll since 2011.

Romo retired holding most of the team’s passing records.

In his rookie season, Prescott went 13-3, completing 67.8 percent of his passes for 3,667 yards with 23 touchdowns, four interceptions and a 104.9 passer rating.

Running back Ezekiel Elliott is the highest-rated Cowboy in the poll, ranking in the top 10. NFLN will reveal the order of the top 10 on Monday.

The poll, of course, has created controversy among both players and fans, so let this debate commence.

The previous polls obviously counted Romo’s previous years of melting down in critical moments and winning an average of 1 playoff game every 3 years and NEVER 2 in a row. Prescott’s ranking will fall too if he ends up with a similar record. He’s the newest flavor and exploded on the scene so no baggage to hold him back yet. Wasn’t RG3 ranked similarly after his rookie year? I rest my case.

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Quite possibly the dumbest thing I’ll read for the next 12 months. 5 Superbowls, 32 times they have made the playoffs since their inception in 1690….that ties them with the Packers…who go back to 1921. Franchise record of 493-367-6 which means they have won 57% of their games.

Now if you want to claim the last 20 years have been mediocre……I wont argue…but to say the franchise is the most mediocre….thats just ignorant!

Must be nice to enter the league and have the best O-line and running game.

Poor Matthew Stafford’s never had a 1000 yard rusher since entering the league #1 overall in 2009 (they were ranked 32 and 30 the last two years and haven’t had a 100 yard rusher in 2 or 3 years) as well as a forever weak O-line.

tells you all you need to know about the credibility of this poll. Every yr., “who is the prettiest Denny’s waitress this month?”

For almost a decade, Reuben Brown made the Pro Bowl (thru the same kinda vote) in Hawaii after mediocre seasons because ………he bought the most beers in Honolulu. True Dat! And many more tales like that.

The hate on Dak is real. a bunch of princesses on here complaining about a list–a list, If i may remind ya’ll is voted on by current NFL players, in other words, Dak’s peers–let it go ladies, he’s likely better than your QB and there isn’t a damn thing you can do about it. Woooooooooooooooh!

The funny thing is, in spite of my comment above this one, I actually came here to defend Prescott, and i’m not a Cowboys fan. He went 13-3 as a rookie, & had the second highest passer rating in the NFC, topped only by Matt Ryan, who did advance to the Super Bowl. If the Cowboys rebuilt defense holds up, they should do better this year. They actually got stronger at wide receiver, with fourth round pick Ryan Switzer already drawing comparisons to Cole Beasley. I was more dumbfounded by Ohio State’s Noah Brown falling to them in the seventh round. The guy hauled in a touchdown using a defender’s back, and he fell to the seventh round? If you want to see it, go on YouTube, & type in Noah Brown circus catch, i’ve never seen anything like it!
I guess his problem now is, the hype is so high, if they don’t go far, he will come crashing back down to Earth on next year’s Top 100.